Mack Beggs, a 17-year-old transgender wrestler from Euless Trinity, was the top story of the UIL Wrestling State Tournament over the weekend.

Beggs, who is transitioning from female to male, won the state title in the Class 6A 110-pound girls division.

Some asked for the UIL to suspend Beggs because his testosterone treatments involved with the transition provided Beggs an unfair advantage. Beggs was allowed to compete because he has a "valid medical use" and must wrestle girls because a UIL rule stipulates that gender is determined by birth certificate.

Hansen: "I would have thought in 2017 - maybe I just hoped that in 2017 - we would be done arguing about birth certificates, but obviously we're not. 17-year-old Mack Beggs, a junior at Euless Trinity who was born a girl and is now in the process of becoming a boy wins the girl's state wrestling tournament Saturday. So, the argument has started again."

"Mack wanted to wrestle against the boys. The UIL said he had to wrestle the girls, and that's not fair for anybody involved in this argument. Mack has been taking testosterone - and it shows."

"There's a reason we have rules in sports against steroids, and it was an incredibly unfair advantage for him and unfair to the girls who had to wrestle him. But the answer to the question: When does a girl become a boy? When does a boy become a girl? When can you play games against those you identify with, and not what a piece of paper says you are? That's way above my pay grade. But someone has to find a better answer than we're being given now."

"As I said when I wrote about Missouri football player Michael Sam, I'm not always comfortable when a man tells me he's gay. I don't understand his world, but I do understand he's a part of mine. And I am saying the same thing now about Mack Beggs. Transitioning is a struggle I cannot imagine. It is a journey I could not make. And it is a life that too many cannot live. The problems that Mack Beggs is facing and dealing with now remind me again that I don't have any problems. He needs our support, and he does not need a group of old men in Austin telling him who to wrestle because of a genetic mix up at birth."

"We have argued long enough about birth certificates. It's an argument that needs to end. You don't have to understand. I don't understand. But Mack Beggs is not the problem so many people make him out to be. He's a child simply looking for his place in the world, and a chance to compete in the world. Do we really not have the simple decency to allow him at least that? Because it seems to me it's the very least we can do."